Home > Patriots QB Tom Brady after team's mistake-filled performance: ''We'll be back and we'll be fighting next week.''

Patriots QB Tom Brady after team's mistake-filled performance: ''We'll be back and we'll be fighting next week.''

Karen Guregian Sunday, September 25, 2011

Initially, this looked like another vintage performance from Tom Brady. It looked like the Patriots quarterback once again had the Bills defense like puppets on a string. He and Wes Welker were clicking en route to a record-performance (16 catches, 217 yards, 2 TDS) for the wideout, and Rob Gronkowski (7 catches, 109 yards, 2 Tds) continued to look unstoppable.

The Pats jumped out to a 21-0, but something happened on the way to victory number three. Brady was driving for another score, with the ball on the Bills 13-yard-line, up 21-7 right before the half, and a tipped ball turned into an interception. That seemed to flip everything upside down. From there, instead of going up by three scores, the Bills managed a field goal for 21-10.

Brady would throw three more interceptions in the second half, one of them taken back for a touchdown on another tipped ball.

''It's football. It's a few plays here or there,'' Brady said following the 34-31 loss. ''We've been on the other end of that before, too. You've got to play for 60 minutes. You've got to keep your foot on the gas pedal and play mistake-free. We certainly didn't do that. (We had) too many turnovers, too many penalties, too many scoring opportunities that we missed. That's why we lost the game.''

On the day, Brady completed 30 of 45 passed for 387 yards and four touchdowns. But the four picks were killers, as two came in the red zone.

''(Buffalo) made some good plays on the ball,'' Brady said. ''Some days the ball gets batted up in the air and it goes your way, and some days it doesn't. That's part of the game. George Wilson made a helll of a play on that one interception (in front of Gronkowski). It's the way the ball bounces. That's football.''

Brady however believes the team will bounce back.

''We'll be back and we'll be fighting next week,'' he said. ''Hopefully we'll learn from it, move on, make a few less mistakes next week and try to go win a game in Oakland.''